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Free Drop-In Writing Workshop (in person)

  • The Cabin 801 South Capitol Boulevard Boise, ID, 83702 United States (map)

The Cabin’s free and open writing workshop, held from 6:30 – 8:00 PM on the first and third Tuesday of each month. Drop-in is hosted by writers Danny Stewart, Natalie Disney, and other guest writers who create unique prompts designed to inspire a supportive community of local writers.

As of February 7th, 2023, the free drop-in writing workshop on the 1st Tuesday of the month will take place in person at The Cabin. The 3rd Tuesday of the month free drop-in workshop will remain online.

This workshop will take place in person at The Cabin.

Price: Free

Please note: We encourage drop-in workshop attendees to freely express themselves in their work, which sometimes results in content that’s not suitable for all ages. As such, this space is best suited for those 18 and over.

Registration is not required for our in-person drop-in workshops. However, if you would like a reminder email a day prior to the in-person drop-in workshop, please click the register button below.

This workshop is taught by:

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Guisela Penados Baldizón
Guisela Penados Baldizón

Guisela Penados Baldizón is a writer of fiction, poetry, and prose. She has been working with young writers for more than fifteen years. A native of Guatemala, Guisela has lived in Boise for 25 years where she was a Top Ten Scholar at Boise State University and earned her M.A. in Literacy. She has been teaching since 1977. She has provided literacy and whole language Spanish workshops throughout the Northwest. One of her favorite projects has been to work with street children in Guatemala, showing them how to use literacy to find their voices. She runs La Tertulia Spanish Learning Center in Boise, an organization that aims to promote bilingualism and the benefits of multiculturalism.

Elizabeth Barnes
Elizabeth Barnes

Being charged by a grizzly in Denali National Park, to being bitten by piranhas in the Amazon Elizabeth Barnes is an avid adventurer and outdoor enthusiast. She loves reading, writing, cooking, and parenting. A lecturer at Boise State University, Elizabeth teaches writing by day and by night battles dragons via her pen.

Kyle Bilinski
Kyle Bilinski

Kyle Bilinski worked two jobs while earning his MFA in Writing from Pacific University. He’s punched the clock as a painting contractor, delivery driver, flight attendant, will-call counter salesman, commercial estimator, and residential plans examiner. His work-minded writing can be found in places like The Baltimore Review, BULL, Eckleburg, Hobart, Monkeybicycle, Overtime, and forthcoming from Iron Horse Literary Review.

Colleen Brennan
Colleen Brennan

Colleen Brennan is a freelance writer, editor, writing coach, and teacher with an MA in linguistics. Her stories appear in the Boise Weekly, Writers in the Attic, and A Year in Ink. A native Minnesotan, she has lived and worked in San Diego, Boulder, Paris, Bordeaux, and Boise. She is the recipient of a literary arts grant from the Alexa Rose Foundation.

Kira Compton
Kira Compton

Kira Compton is currently pursuing an MFA at Boise State, where she serves as the Associate Editor of The Idaho Review. Her writing has been published or is forthcoming from The Florida Review: Aquifer, Saranac Review, hex literary, Into the Void, and others. Stalk her professional life at kiracompton.com and her personal life @kirajcompton.

Natalie Disney
Natalie Disney

Natalie Disney recently earned her MFA in creative writing from Boise State University, where she served as Associate Editor of The Idaho Review. Her work has been published in The Florida Review, The Mississippi Review, and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and the PEN America Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She is a recipient of the 2017 Glenn Balch Award for fiction. She teaches writing at BSU and is at work on her first novel.

McKenna Esteb
McKenna Esteb

McKenna Esteb is an accomplished local musician. With 5+ years of songwriting experience and performances all over the United States, she has made a dent in the Boise music scene. Since first moving back to Boise in 2021 she released her debut EP, played Flipside, Treefort, Alive After Five, performed live on KTVB, opened for various touring acts, and is regularly featured on Radio Boise & KBSU. This year she is releasing her first ever full length album.

Stories of her works have been published in Boise Weekly, Idaho 6 News, Idaho Press, and Nanobot Rock. Now that she is rooted in Boise her goal is to share her personal techniques and create a safe space where vulnerable conversations can be held and creative ideas can be brought to life.

Rebecca Evans
Rebecca Evans

Rebecca Evans is a memoirist, poet, and essayist. She’s a military veteran, a serious gardener, and often engages in self-hand-to-hand combat. You can find her writing in her hammock, under the stairwell, or stuck in a fluffy chair. She teaches. A lot. She also co-hosts a radio show, Writer to Writer, on Radio Boise and lives in Idaho with sons and Newfoundlands and a squawky Calico cat.

Her poems and essays have appeared in Narratively, The Rumpus, War, Literature & the Arts, The Limberlost Review, and a handful of anthologies. She’s co-edited an anthology of poems, WHEN THERE ARE NINE, a tribute to the life and achievements of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Moon Tide Press). Her full-length poetry collection, a memoir-in-verse, TANGLED BY BLOOD, is available wherever fine books are sold.

Evans earned two MFAs, one in creative nonfiction, the other in poetry, University of Nevada, Reno at Lake Tahoe.

Sonya Feibert
Sonya Feibert

Sonya Feibert (she/her) is a writer, comedian, and improvisor who's tried out too many jokes on her dog (Chloe is unimpressed). She's completed humor and sketch writing courses through NYU, Second City, Hoopla, St. Nell's, Thurber House, and more. Her writing appears in the Writers in the Attic anthology: Rupture, Dovetail Literary Magazine, The Belladonna Comedy, Slackjaw Humor, and more. In 2021, she was awarded an Alexa Rose Grant, and in 2022 received a grant from the Idaho Commission on the Arts. Learn more: yesandsome.com

Alli Frank
Alli Frank

Alli Frank has worked in education as a teacher and assistant head of school for over 20 years. She is the co-author, with Asha Youmans, of Tiny Imperfections, Never Meant to Meet You, The Better Half, and Boss Lady, and the upcoming On Being Jewish Now, available October 2024. Tiny Imperfections is being adapted into a television show by Lionsgate TV. A graduate of Cornell and Stanford University, Alli lives in Sun Valley, Idaho with her husband and two daughters.

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